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Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back Posted Nov 22, 2004
no one would call there kid sh*thead...would they.
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The Groob Posted Nov 22, 2004
Apparently someone called their child "Chlamydia" because they thought it was a flower.
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Baron Grim Posted Nov 22, 2004
The rumour/joke/story I've heard is that it's pronounced Shi-THEED.
There's a whole bunch more on the "Real People with funny names" thread... (or is that threed?)
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Nov 22, 2004
Chlamydia... well, it *does* sound a bit like a flower... Giles Brandreth wrote once about the categories of words... Those with nice sound/nasty meaning, nice sound/nice meaning etc. I had such fun putting them into categories...
Nice sound/nice meaning
Euphony
Loveliness
Jasmine
Nice sound/nasty meaning
Diahroea (sp?)
Chlamydia
Meconium (there's a story about the Pacific Island mother who heard a doctor say the word when her son was born, and said "oh, that sounds nice...)
Colitis
Nasty sound/nice meaning
Can't think of any... Contributions, please! (Of course, it is subjective.)
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Baron Grim Posted Nov 23, 2004
OH---MY---BOB!!!
I had never heard the word meconium before...
I just looked it up...
Did you ever listen to that Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds... did you catch that line about "the girl with colitis rode by"? 
The funniest word I ever looked up in a dictionary in high school was priapism. I still think it makes a nice epithet.
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Nov 24, 2004
I bet its not so funny for those who suffer from it, even though many of us might aspire to sporting a permanent 'horn'.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Nov 24, 2004
My sister is a primary school teacher in a school on a sink estate near Liverpool. One year there was a girl in her class named 'Stella'. Her parents said they'd named her after the lager.
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The Groob Posted Nov 24, 2004
The man who worked in our local kebab shop called his daughter "Donna".
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Nov 29, 2004
Safeways supermarkets are being converted to Morrison's, following a takeover.
The only (known) reference to Safeways in a song lyric is in 'St. Dominic's Preview'....by Van Morrison.
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The Groob Posted Dec 6, 2004
Bitrex is the most bitter substance yet discovered.
Bitrex can be detected by taste at 10ppb and is recognisably bitter at 50ppb.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 6, 2004
I think one of the uses of Bitrex is as an additive in poisonous substances. It is so disgusting that anybody drinking the poison will immediately spit it out. It is also used by retreating armies to destroy food that they are not able to take with them, so that it will not be used by the enemy.
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Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back Posted Dec 6, 2004
i can verify that it is pretty bitter, i have a wierd habit of getting drunk then finding anything as a challenge so one day i was reading a bottle of stardrops(?) a cleaning fluid that contains bitrex as a deterrent to kids well it said on the bottle (contains bitrex the most bitter substance known to man or dummit well i then went "that sounds like a challenge" and drank half a bottle not only did it make my face cave in from the bitterness of it all but i threw up for the rest of the night 
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Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back Posted Dec 6, 2004
yeah hence the addition of bitrex
and saying its the bitterest thing ever made me take their challenge
once i challenged the fella on trainspotting to a drinking competition, (go figure) then i drank drambue which was more icky and horrid then stardrops
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Dec 6, 2004
Has anyone tried the Indian vegetable Karelia - also known as bitter gourd? A friend served them stuffed the other night. An acquired taste. Some people can't eat them at all.
Speaking of Stardrops - has anyone else noticed the similarity between the smell of Windowlene and the taste of Scweppes Russchian? Maybe they should market Windowlene as 'Russchian Smoothie'.
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Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back Posted Dec 6, 2004
jack and bitter lemon is a lovely drink but once because the pub we were in had no botter lemon they just gave us half a lemon to squeeze in and it wound up tasting like sweat
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